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1959 1 958-59 ANNUAL REPORT: 9

19 5 8 195 9 Annual Report

THE ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM

Number 9

100 QUEEN’S PARK-TORONTO 5-CANADA

This report of the Director of the Royai Ontario Museum is reprinted front
the University of Toronto President’s Report for the year ended June 1959.

Printed by the University of Toronto Presi.

Hie Director's Report

A series of probings of varying degrees of delicacy in and around the Royal
Ontario Museum may have caught the notice of alert observers during the year
1958-9. Each was designed to add to the stock of information being accumulated by
those trying to forecast with reasonable accuracy the future shape and programme of
the Museum. In some cases, immediate prognostication was possible. One set of data
thus obtained, for example, was directly connected with the imminent upheavals
which will accompany the construction of Toronto’s newest subway. The high tempo
of much of the Museum’s activity for the year just ended will be in contrast to the
period of diminished public activity that contsruction will enforce, through a limited
access to the building and the necessity of protecting fragile objects and specimens.
The impending construction was also responsible for the last major decision of the
year: to undertake the long-discussed removal of the famous Ming Tomb to an
outdoor site in the north courtyard during this period of grace; otherwise this large
undertaking would probably have had to be postponed for several years.

Thus, the prerequisite to any future extensions to the building became a concrete
plan and an actual commitment, though the sequence of soundings disappointingly
failed to produce any evidence that funds for desperately needed extra space are any
closer than when long-range hopes were first announced in 1955, nor are any endow¬
ments yet in sight. The important study on future establishment likewise failed to
make the hoped-for progress. The first year of a projected five-year survey into a
number of important imponderables in museum operation was successfully completed
with the devoted volunteer help of the Members’ Committee. The first results of this
sampling of 4,800 persons who co-operated most helpfully in the inquiry into the
nature and needs of the museum visitor have already aroused strong international
interest in professional circles.

The first year of operation under the recommendations of the Woods and
Gordon Report on salary scales and promotions made possible the merit transfers into
the curatorial ranks of seven juniors trained in the Museum — two to the rank of
Assistant Curator and five to the newly created Curatorial Assistantships, Grades I or
II— and caused gratification that Museum staff have now attained a three-quarters
parity with faculty colleagues, but spurred hopes that the still considerable differential
may be speedily reduced. Plans were formulated and partly carried out for a material
improvement in the Museum’s lamentable deficiencies in storage facilities and though
at least one of the solutions found can only offer temporary alleviation, the immediate
relief provided is most welcome. Gallery renovations continued at a stately but dis¬
cernible pace and several major improvements in the way of reinstallation, to be
recorded in their due place, came within sight of completion during the year.

Cancellation of the Museum’s Open Nights programme because of the over¬
burdening of staff and the unrewarding attendance was more than offset by two
highly successful series of free lectures and special activities co-ordinated with the
season’s principal exhibitions. One series of lectures took the form of a commemora¬
tion of the centenary of the publication of Darwin’s epochal Origin of Species ,
and to the surprise of many was so popular that up to 200 would-be listeners had to
be turned away each evening when the theatre was filled. These stimulating lectures
were delivered by Dr. E. T. V. Pengelley, Department of Zoology, and Dr. W. J.
Mayer-Oakes, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto, and Dr. Urqu-
hart, Dr. Peterson and Dr. Edmund of the Museum. The second series, almost equally
popular, brought to the Museum platform Miss Kathleen Kenyon, Director of the
British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem, on “Recent Discoveries at Ancient
Jericho,” Mrs. Lydia Bond Powel of the Metropolitan Museum on “Wedgwood
and the Wedgwoods,” and Mr. Howard Hansford, Director of the Percival David
Foundation in London, on the celebrated Chinese ceramics in that collection. Total
attendance for the year dropped somewhat from the 1957-8 high to 466,203.

The Museum was joint host with the Art Gallery of Toronto to the eleventh
annual meeting of the Canadian Museums Association, an occasion to which trustees,
members and staff devoted much time and effort in providing facilities, demonstra¬
tions and hospitality, and which was honoured by the Provincial Government, the
City and the University with festive receptions and dinners. The meetings were
further honoured and enriched by the participation of the President of the British
Museum Association, Dr. W. E. Swinton, and the Director of the American Associa¬
tion of Museums, Mr. Joseph Allen Patterson.

Research, an unceasing activity in all departments, made its findings known in
the customary ways through publications achieved or readied for printing, through
papers read at the meetings of learned societies here and abroad, through the prepara¬
tion of special exhibitions and new permanent installations, through teaching or lec¬
turing and public talks delivered in large numbers by nearly all members of the cura¬
torial staff, through the laboratory work of the various technical staffs and by a
notable increase in the number of illuminating labels which appeared in most
gratifying quantities in many galleries. It is seldom realized that the preparation of a
concise but adequate label for a new object or one previously neglected may repre¬
sent arduous and extended new research. Less gratifying is the fact that funds could
not be found to launch the Royal Ontario Museum Magazine for which a national
survey had indicated a real need. The considerable committee time devoted to the
scholarly preparation of most of the material for the projected first issues has been
banked against a more propitious season, for the staff has not abandoned hope that
this dream will find its realization.

Two changes in divisional denomination went into effect and have substantially
reduced the occupational hazards of broken jaws and finger cramp to the answerers
of telephones and the addressers and signers of correspondence. The Division of
Zoology and Palaeontology is showing new vigour as the Life Sciences Division
and the Division of Geology and Mineralogy has a suitably stalwart new title of
Earth Sciences. Small boys proud of their linguistic accomplishments may still
exercise them on the unchanged names of the constituent departments and much
confusion with departments in the University is now avoided. A prize awaits him
who devises a completely acceptable solution to the unsolved problem posed by
the cumbersome name of the Division of Art and Archaeology.

The business of Museum travellers has carried them far beyond the old confines
of Canada and the closer states south of the border. Among others, Dr. Graham
worked in Crete and Greece, Dr. Lemon extended his previous researches in Peru
and Mrs. Stephen studied in Japan. During the summer of 1958, four members of
the staff were in London for the meetings of the British Museum Association —
the Director, Mrs. Downie, Mr. Hillen and Dr. Urquhart, the latter concurrently
working with an international committee on nomenclature. The Director concen¬
trated on Sicily, while Mr. Hillen studied installations all over western Europe.

The Board was strengthened by the appointments of Professor L. G. Berry, Mr.
E. W. Bickle, Dr. G. A. LaBine, Mr. R. G. Meech and the Honourable Dana Porter.
The Museum joined the universal lamentation over the untimely loss of its devoted
friend and counsellor, Dr. Sidney Smith, who had given so much time and construc¬
tive thought to its problems, particularly during the period of reorganization. It had
also to regret the resignation of Mrs. C. L. Gundy. It wishes to record its gratification
that the Honourable J. Keiller Mackay has found it possible to maintain his valued
and active participation since his appointment as Lieutenant-Governor. This is
perhaps also the place to mention that few things have given the whole staff of the
Museum such encouragement as the two full days given to becoming more closely
acquainted with the Museum, its staff and its problems by the new President,
Dr. Claude T. Bissell, and the Vice-President, Dr. Murray G. Ross.

The Art and Archaeology Division was as usual a veritable beehive of activity.
Working downward, on the top floor one found the conspicuous start of a general
revision of the show and study collections which is the natural consequence of the
arrival of an energetic new curator in the Far Eastern Department, in the person
of Dr. Henry Trubner, formerly of the Los Angeles County Museum. Ultimate

dispositions depend on plans for the future Bloor Street wing, but meantime a
thinning and rearrangement of material on display already suggest the enrichment
of values which breathing space can confer on objects of outstanding quality without
diminishing the scholarly benefits of context and systematization in adequately repre¬
sentative quantity. On the second floor, by switching the Roman Britain and Pales¬
tinian galleries, Mr. Lunn has brought the latter into proper relation with the
Egyptian galleries and work is now in progress to make more effective use of the
prehistoric collections. The McCrea Ganadiana models have made a surprising
appearance in this vicinity, the only one which for the moment offers them sufficient
space. The Athens gallery is much further along but remains incomplete. On the main
floor the reinstallation of the English eighteenth century galleries and the Pine Room
was sufficiently forward that one of the former was already in limited use for teaching
purposes. Considerable redecorating on the ground floor permitted rehanging of the
Paul Kane paintings and a start towards new presentation of Northwest Coast Indian
material was made, but the real news here is that a massive dent has been made in
the appalling storage problems which have for so long all but paralysed the
Ethnology Department’s gallery plans. The famous totem poles also received needed
strengthening.

The Division’s — and the Museum’s — major exhibition of the year was the
trail-blazing and deeply provocative “Masks: The Many Faces of Man.” This show,
which cut across a dozen academic disciplines and enjoyed the assistance of all
divisions and of faculty friends in its preparation, was at once the visible token of basic
research and the dramatic revelation of a wealth of significant material largely in
the possession of the Museum which few had previously known was here. Organized
by a committee under the chairmanship of Dr. Tushingham, brilliantly installed to the
unique design of Mr. Parker, staffed by volunteers, strengthened by judicious loans,
notably from Japan, and perpetuated by a substantial, well-illustrated catalogue, the
exhibition commanded world-wide publicity and admiration. The exhibition of
oriental rugs from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Kalman also had a
handsome catalogue and was subsequently shown in its entirety in Winnipeg. The
“Pioneer Ontario” exhibition introduced the McCrea models in their effective new
cases and linked them to our other collections of pioneer Canadiana. The Sigmund
Samuel Canadiana Gallery mounted two special exhibitions, “Famous Soldier- Artists
in Canada” and “Illustration in Early Canada.” The Division’s galleries were hosts
during the year to “Typography ’58,” the Canadian Painter-Etcher and Engravers’
annual show, the “Canadian Ceramics ’59” supplemented by a display of Wedg¬
wood “Queensware,” the splendid assemblage of Rajasthan paintings from the
collection of Sri Gopi Krishna of Calcutta previously seen in London and New York,
and an exhibition on the Dead Sea Scrolls. Ecclesiastical vestments from our own
collections were given a special showing in addition to the normal rotation of textiles
and costumes. Lower Rotunda shows included Selwyn Dewdney’s copies of Indian
pictographs, C. W. Jefferys’ paintings, Yukon Gold Rush photographs, staff photo¬
graphs, Children’s Club work, a background supplement to the Mask Show and
photographs of Persia and elsewhere by Donald Buchanan of the National Gallery.
A special gala event was the showing by Holt, Renfrew in the Armour Court of the
Christian Dior autumn fashions, a benefit which raised a substantial sum for the
costume collections of the Textile Department.

Research programmes were all making satisfactory progress and it was anticipated
that two new series of publications would see print just after the end of the year, in
the form of annual and occasional papers. Conservational research proceeding in
co-operation with the Ontario Research Foundation with the support of the McLean
Foundation was making gratifying advances in the specialized field of Chinese
pigments, and Miss Fernald, in the first year of her increased leisure as Research
Curator, made notable progress on the long-awaited volume on Chinese tomb
figurines. The field work in a year-long ethnological project in Northern Ontario
was completed by Dr. Edward Rogers. Mr. Dewdney carried through the second
season of recording Indian pictographs with the support of the Quetico Foundation
and the Department of Lands and Forests, and was prepared to start his third

season. Mr. Richard Johnson was occupied for the third season in 1958 at the
Museum’s Serpent Mounds site and was ready for the fourth. Mr. Kidd and Mr.
Kenyon continued their field work at various sites north of the Great Lakes, and
Mr. Kenyon also found time to carry the onerous burden of co-ordinating manager
for the Mask Show and to become a popular television personality. And although
Museum participation was limited to financial support, the Museum’s share of
finds, especially ivories, from Dr. Mallowan’s famous excavations at Nimrud in Iraq
and of Nabatean pottery from the British School of Archaeology’s expedition near
Petra were eagerly awaited.

The divisional library’s reading room has been re-lighted and it is hoped to
improve the stacks in similar fashion soon. The second special allocation of $5,000
to the Chinese library from the Special Provincial Grant has permitted notable
accessions to this important collection and the closing of some conspicuous gaps in
its periodical files, but much remains to be done and no solution has been found to
the vexing problem of cataloguing the Mu Chinese-language holdings. One
notable addition is a ts’e of a Buddhist sutra dated in correspondence with a.d. 1110,
the earliest edition now in the rare book section.

Accessions to the departmental collections of Art and Archaeology by gift, be¬
quest and purchase from both the Provincial Grant and the Divisional funds are so
numerous that full details can only be given in the “Annual.” Particularly notable
are an Egyptian fourteenth century b.c. relief containing a portrait of Queen
Nefertete; 41 items, principally ivories, from the 1958 excavations at Nimrud;
important African, Melanesian and Oceanic ethnological material, especially Dogon
and Baga sculptures and, by gift of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel J. Zacks, a remarkable
Bambara antelope; a large group of additions to the Canadiana collection by gift of
Dr. Sigmund Samuel; a Burgundian late Gothic sculpture of St. George and the
Dragon; a Japanese hanging scroll of “Gibbons” by Shugetsu (died 1510) from
the Reuben Wells Leonard Fund; Ming furniture by gift of Mrs. Edgar J. Stone;
three fine English eighteenth-century portrait sculptures, a field previously unrepre¬
sented here, namely a signed and dated (1743) terracotta bust probably of Francois
Duquesnoy by Michael Rysbrack, a terracotta medallion bust of Cromwell by
Roubiliac and a signed and dated marble bust of William Pitt by Nollekens (Dr.
Samuel contributing to the cost of the latter) ; and, from the Special Provincial
Grant, well over a hundred pieces of Greek and Roman sculpture and other objects
comprising the estate of the late Dr. Ludwig Curtius, the eminent director successively
of the German Schools of Archaeology in Athens and Rome.

Important loans during the year were to the great travelling exhibition in
Europe of pre-Columbian art which opened in Munich last October; to the Toledo
exhibition, “The African Image”; to the opening of the new Mies van der Rohe
wing at Houston for the exhibition “Totems not Tabu”; to the Montreal exhibition
on the occasion of the first general conference of the Canadian National Committee
for UNESCO; and to the Western Art Circuit an exhibition of Paul Kane paintings.
The loan to Winnipeg of the Kalman oriental rug exhibition has been mentioned
elsewhere. The Museum naturally benefited by a very large number of incoming
loans for its special exhibitions.

The Far Eastern Department has completed its share of a co-operative exchange
venture in slides, sponsored by Oxford, which will bring the Museum some thousand
slides of oriental art objects in ten major collections. The Division also assisted in a
rather ad hoc way in furthering the training of two museum aspirants under a
scheme sponsored by the National Gallery and given its first working trial this year.

Staff changes during the year included the promotions of Mr. John Lunn to
Associate Curatorship in the Greek and Roman Department, of Mrs. Neda Leipen
and Mrs. Barbara Stephen as Assistant Curators respectively in the Greek and Roman
and Far Eastern Departments; of Miss Joan Groves, Miss Pamela Wholton and Mrs.
Nancy Chadwick to Curatorial Assistantships; and of Miss Betty Kingston to be
full-time Librarian of the Far Eastern Department. New appointments included
those of Mr. Harold Burnham as Curatorial Assistant in Textiles, Mr. Heri Hickl-
Szabo as Curatorial Assistant in the Modern European Department, Mrs. E. A. Philli-

more as Technician in Conservation, Miss Dorothea Hecken as Chief Cataloguer, and
Miss Hin-cheung Leung of Hong Kong as Secretarial Assistant in Far Eastern. The
resignations of Mrs. Elizabeth Lemelin as Chief Cataloguer, S. J. Gooding, Assistant
Conservator, and Miss Pamela Wholton, Curatorial Assistant in the Textile Depart¬
ment, were particularly regretted.

The public highlights of the year in Life Sciences Division were the extraordi¬
narily successful Darwin lectures, already mentioned, and the opening by the Peruvian
Ambassador of the special exhibition devoted to the problem, working methods and
some of the finds in last year’s now famous expedition to the Talara tar pits. This
display has been integrated with the refurbished display from the LaBrea tar pits
of California and a special film on the expedition was also prepared and shown.
The Chief Technician, Mr. Hornell, has cleaned about a third of the Talara speci¬
mens. The material for the Darwin lectures was also presented in a special series of
lectures for the Workers’ Education Association.

The work on the World Reptile Gallery has made good progress: construction
of all special cases was completed, a mural was completed and extraordinary strides
have been made by Mr. Shortt, Mr. Sternberg, Mr. Gatti and their assistants in the
preparation of the 108 selected specimens by the arresting new technique developed
by them in the Department of Arts and Exhibits. The completed specimens include
a 14-foot anaconda and an 18-foot reticulate python, the most complex problem of
this sort yet undertaken. As a result of the growing fame of this work 22 exceptional
specimens were obtained for casting after a flood disaster in the Cleveland Zoo,
thanks to quick and careful work on the spot by Mr. Gatti and a generous emergency
grant from the Carling Breweries Ltd. who are sponsors of the new gallery. As
otherwise the specimens are virtually all handled alive, remarkable series of electronic
flash photographic studies of rapid motion have also been produced, resulting
in important new discoveries about the “sling-shot” tongues of African chameleons,
now shown to be prehensile as well as adhesive, and about the bipedal running gait
of basilisks.

Plans for major overhaul of the invertebrate palaeontology, mammal and bird
galleries, involving also shifts of offices and the divisional library, are well forward, but
depend in a large part for fulfilment on funds which were not currently available.
Plans were worked out and put into effect in a co-operative effort with the University
Library and University departments concerned to recatalogue the divisional library
under the Library of Congress classification and rearrange it, starting with serial
publications. The plans for the long overdue rearrangement of the research collection
of fossil invertebrates were approved by the Department of Geological Sciences.

Dr. Urquhart, in addition to considerable field work, administrative work, editing
and attendance at meetings abroad, has completed the manuscript of his large
monograph on the Monarch butterfly and has embarked on the completion of his
work on the Orthoptera of Eastern Canada. Dr. Wiggins has nearly finished his study
of the Phryganeidae of the World and the Honorary Curator, Dr. E. M. Walker, is
well into the third volume of The Odonata of Canada and Alaska. The Department
of Invertebrates has been particularly helped by the loan of type material from
the Stockholm Museum and the Zoological Museum of Humboldt University, Berlin,
and by the gift of a collection of Alaskan Trichoptera from Dr. G. E. Bell of the
University of Alberta.

For the Department of Fossil Invertebrates, Dr. Lemon was able to extend his
previous researches in Peru by collecting further specimens in the Talara region and
along some 120 kilometres of coastal modern and raised beaches. Plants to provide
comparative material in identification of plant debris associated with the tar seep
vertebrates were collected for Dr. Edmund, and specimens to aid study of progressive
change of the faunas were added to the collections already in hand. Although until
April he held an appointment at Queen’s University, Dr. Lemon was still able to
devote two days a week to the Museum in order to continue the work previously
begun. The increasing number of enquiries from fossil collectors has led to formula¬
tion of plans to start a Toronto amateur palaeontologists’ field club through the
Museum, possibly to be associated with the Federation of Ontario Naturalists.

The Department of Ichthyology and Herpetology reports its busiest year and that
it has been inundated with new specimens (18,000 fishes alone for the research
collections), which have been coped with in cataloguing only through volunteer
help. The Department co-operates closely with many governmental agencies and
academic institutions, all of which make greater and greater use of its facilities and
staff. Of the numerous visitors this traffic creates, it was particularly gratifying that
Dr. Gunner Svardson of the Swedish Institute of Freshwater Fishery Research
could be induced to deliver three lectures during his three-day stay. Mr. Logier has
revised the out-of-print check-list of Amphibians and Reptiles of Canada and Alaska
and remains the most persistently consulted authority on snake-bite in Ontario and
how to avoid it. Dr. Scott and Dr. Crossman in the course of field work ranging from
Ontario to New Brunswick and North Carolina were able to complete and publish
their annotated check-list on The Freshwater Fishes of New Brunswick.

A major feature of the Life Sciences report for 1957-8 was the announcement
of the purchase of the James Alexander Munro research collection of western birds
(8,299 specimens) and mammals (2,723 specimens). The material was received in
meticulous condition by Dr. Snyder and Dr. Peterson. Both were delighted to discover
“all the economies of space, the forethought for use, the processing for conservation”
which had been applied by Mr. Munro and that “he had the acumen to seek and
save desiderata which could be brought to bear on countless scientific questions.”
While the first stages of the incorporation of this extraordinary collection into ours
were taking place, the sad news arrived of Mr. Munro’s death in Ottawa on Septem¬
ber 29, 1958, but it is comforting to remember that he knew his life’s work had found
a permanent, safe home and that it had reached here without any damage. Mr.
Baillie has completed an inventory of this collection. The ornithological collections
have been increased by many other specimens, through donation, purchase and
exchange. Mr. Paul Hahn has added yet another to the 69 extinct Passenger Pigeons
out of the 124 held by the Museum and another came from Mr. L. H. Beamer.
During the year some 50 mounted specimens of various species have been reduced to
study skins to alleviate serious congestion in departmental space. An equal number
of preparations has been made by Mr. Taylor and, with part-time help, 3,400
reference cards have been added to Ornithology’s bibliographic files. Dr. Snyder
has been elected to the Council of the American Ornithologists’ Union. The Depart¬
ment’s achievements are particularly gratifying in view of the physical handicaps
under which it works, especially of space. Its collections alone now require for
safekeeping fully twice the available amount of room.

The activities of the Department of Fossil Vertebrates have been alluded to
in connection with the Peruvian material and the special exhibit of it. Dr. Edmund,
an active lecturer, teacher, committee worker and television performer, was not only
deeply involved with his Peruvian material but found time to complete his long
manuscript on “Mode and Sequence of Tooth Replacement in Reptiles” and a
related paper. He has received valuable help as a research associate from Dr. C. S.
Churcher of the University Department of Zoology.

The Curator of Mammals, Dr. Peterson, has completed all the manuscript of
his “The Mammals of Eastern Canada” except for the carnivores; most of the line
drawings of skulls and the detailed distribution maps are likewise ready. Final
checking has been carried out at all the principal American museums with relevant
material and considerable additional field work was done along the north shore of
the St. Lawrence and in the Maritimes. Temporary housing for the over 2,700
specimens from the Munro collection was contrived, association of skins and skulls
was carried out and cataloguing is well along. Routine identifications during the
year included over a thousand preserved small mammals in a province-wide survey
for the Department of Lands and Forests. Dr. Peterson was re-elected Recording
Secretary of the American Society of Mammalogists at Tucson.

Divisional promotions were received by Mr. J. L. Baillie and Mr. S. C. Downing
to the newly created rank of Curatorial Assistant Grade I. Mr. L. I. Cowan of
Earth Sciences received a similar promotion.

The Earth Sciences Division also lists storage as a major problem, but announces

that the rearrangement of north basement storage is virtually complete and satis¬
factory. It fears, however, that mention of such mundane if pressing matters may
cause its vivid desire for a Planetarium to be overlooked. It is astonishing that no
Canadian benefactor has yet come forward to make good perhaps the most conspicu¬
ous gap in museum services, services which in every other major city of this
continent, Europe, Japan and Australia are considered routine amenities.

The Division mounted two special exhibitions during the year. A photographic
exhibition on “Canadian Mining and Metallurgy” prepared by Mr. G. Hunter occu¬
pied the gallery during the autumn months. In the spring an extremely successful
show, “Precious Gems and Spectacular Jewels,” was arranged as a benefit in collabo¬
ration with Ruth Chapter of the Hadassah Organization of Toronto under the
chairmanship of Mrs. William Pape. During the eight-day showing and with a gala
evening opening some 6,000 paying visitors were attracted, not least by the centre¬
piece, the famous baroque Crown of the Andes, and a substantial sum was raised
for the increase of the gem collection.

The long list of divisional acquisitions is appended, but special note may be
made of an 1,840-carat sea-green step-cut spodumene and a 159-carat cushion-cut
sherry topaz, both acquired through the Special Provincial Grant, a 108-carat step-
cut square peridot, a large suite of fine wulfenite and cerussite specimens from
Arizona and several fine specimens of gold highgrade to replace those lost in the
theft three years ago. The new gemstones are displayed in a handsome large new case
and the “Star of Lanka” star sapphire has been installed on a rotating base in a
specially lighted and fitted case. Twenty of the new mineral specimens are new to
our collections and of these several are newly described species.

Mr. Hillen has made fine progress on stage 3 of the total reinstallation of the
geology galleries and its major construction elements are now complete.

Dr. Meen and Dr. Tovell have both done much teaching and lecturing, have
published papers, and have, with Miss Ward, carried on their devoted work with the
Junior Field Naturalists and the Junior Walker Club. Their field work has been
extended in Dr. Meen’s case as far as Arizona and California, while Mr. Cowan
and Mr. Teewiss have worked principally in Eastern Ontario and Mr. Cowan also
spent three weeks of study in the United States National Museum in Washington.

Dr. Meen and Dr. Tovell are both Directors of the new Canadian Gemmological
Association. Dr. Meen was appointed Canadian Member of the Meteorite Commis¬
sion of the International Geological Congress. Dr. Tovell was elected an Honorary’
Life Member of the Prospectors and Developers Association, President of the Federa¬
tion of Ontario Naturalists and a member of a Board of Arbitration for the Fuel
Board of the Province of Ontario.

It has now been some years since the the Division of Education reached the limits
of its physical and staff capacities for receiving the young in the Museum, but it is
engaging under Miss Heake’s direction in endless search for methods to improve its
services to its clients of all ages. Emphasis, for example, is being placed on the
preparation of teachers who are to bring their classes to the Museum, so that the
children arrive with a specific sense of purpose and the occasion, without losing the
pleasures of an outing, gains the reward of a real adventure in learning. The steady
growth of the Metropolitan school population creates a correspondingly increasing
problem in the scheduling of visits by pupils from distant schools, a problem only
in part alleviated by the establishment of a considerable number of new museums
in the Province: the Museum’s close relations with many of these institutions
permits suggesting ways for schools to make good use of these new facilities, but
does not offer any solution toward making more fully available the resources which
only a very large museum can offer. With us the answer lies perhaps less in increased
teaching staff than in enlarged facilities, for which there is no space in the existing
building.

Our notable travelling teachers and exhibits service does permit expansion
through increase of staff. This year the three teachers available for the distant-
schoois programme managed in sub-zero weather and unusually heavy snows to reach
some 6,750 pupils in the course of 43 teaching days and 195 lessons. These pupils

were concentrated in Eastern Lanark and Renfrew counties and in the vicinities
of Cochrane, Kapuskasing and Hearst. The Museum was particularly pleased
to receive this year a sizable delegation of secondary school pupils from Geraldton,
the greatest distance from which any school group has yet visited the Museum.
It was also gratifying that the association of several years’ standing with the public
schools of Eggertsville, New York, continues to bring lively groups of American chil¬
dren to the Museum.

The Saturday Morning Club under the supervision of Miss Eugenia Berlin,
assisted by seven leaders trained in a variety of skills, continues to provide one of
the most convincing demonstrations of what the child can draw from the Museum.
This programme is largely possible because of a grant from the Metropolitan Council.
We have felt more and more strongly that we were not doing enough to help post¬
school and post-graduate adult visitors to draw the greatest benefits from their use
of the Museum and much remains to be done. Meanwhile, the Museum Extension
Courses, arranged by Miss Martin in collaboration with the University Extension
Division, go a long way to prove that effective work is being done within the
limits now practicable. It is regretted that too little of this work can at present
be done in direct association with the collections. This year, although one less course
was offered than in the previous year, 2,575 persons attended, an increase of about
200. “Preserving Ontario History” had to be repeated in the second term by popular
demand, and got through to completion even though one of the lecturers, Mr.
Gerald Stevens, was snowed in at Mallorytown for 21 days, and Miss Jeanne Min-
hinnick of the Ontario St. Lawrence Development Commission also had to over¬
come weather problems. “So You’re Going Travelling” was a most popular attraction
now in its third year, but with a new programme each time. Mr. Lunn’s “Aspects
of Archaeology” gave its students an opportunity to handle archaeological material
and join in open discussion, while Mrs. Brett’s “Talking of Textiles” achieved through
limited registration the ideal of exposing the student to the materials of the course
in seminar.

The Division’s Sunday film programmes were tied to current museum events
and attracted 4,211 persons. The first three were grouped under the heading “Using
the Past to Live in the Present”; the next four, “In the Wake of the Beagle,” comple¬
mented the Earth Sciences lecture series for the Darwin Centennial; and the last two,
“Masks of the World,” were tied to the “Masks: The Many Faces of Man”
exhibition.

Miss Ella Martin was granted a fellowship by the Canadian Association for
Adult Education for a study on adult learning in other museums, a project which
took her to seventeen important museums of various categories on the east and west
coasts of the United States. Miss Margaret Cumming was granted the degree of
Bachelor of Education.

The indefatigable Office of Information Services considers its period of organi¬
zation at an end, and under Mr. Cameron’s guidance it is well launched in a planned
programme of research, recommendation and production. Press, radio and television
relations remain excellent and in some respects have been improved. During the
year the Museum participated in 54 radio and 31 television programmes. Museum
personnel were “on mike” or “on camera” for a total of over 18 hours, much of this
on coast-to-coast networks. The newspapers continued their gratifying coverage of
Museum events. Canadian papers alone printed over 1,100 stories about the Museum
and its staff, and about 350 news photographs were reproduced.

The non-ephemeral aspects of the year’s work for this office have centred on the
first stage of the proposed five-year programme in public relations research. Examina¬
tion of the literature in this field of museology strongly suggests that ours is bv far
the most thorough attempt yet made to determine the character and needs of the
Museum’s visitors and other clients. Preliminary findings have already aroused intense
interest in professional circles; so the results should prove of use far beyond our
own walls. During the first year 4,800 groups of visitors were interviewed, this stage
being completed on June 30, and although the results of tabulation and interpreta¬
tion will not be published until the autumn, first rough findings could be presented

at the meetings of the Canadian and American Museums Associations and were
discussed informally at the International Council of Museums in Stockholm. The
survey was only possible because of the splendid volunteer work in interviewing
done by our Members’ Committee under the chairmanship of Mrs. S. Owen Carter.
These women made 4,100 of the 4,800 interviews (the remainder were done by staff
members), gave 600 hours to the interviewing and an additional 50 to coding. Had
this been done by a research firm, the additional cost to the Museum would have been
$7,500 and could not in fact have been undertaken. The over-all Members’ Com¬
mittee under the chairmanship of Mrs. W. O. Randall provided invaluable help in
many other ways, notably in staffing the Mask Show for three weeks (Mrs. W. M.
Turner, Jr., Chairman), and with the Dior Fashion Show (Mrs. Peter Allward,
Chairman) and has devoted great thought to proposing ways in which it can be
of constant and ever broader service to the Museum.

Much time of the Office of Information Services went, of course, to promotion
of current activities, notably -the Mask Show, the Gem Show and the Darwin lectures;
results of the long months spent in the co-ordination and vast improvement in graphic
design brought much favourable comment. The time devoted to committee work in
planning the all-Museum magazine came to nothing for the present beyond a Board
approval-in-principle for the project and a stock of publishable material, because
the necessary funds could not be found.

The Museum was extremely pleased that two of the CBC-ROM telecasts won
two of the seven Ohio awards for cultural television, each in two categories. One was
for the filmed “Explorations” programme, “The Banished Immortal,” based on the
life of the poet Li-Po and told with Chinese tomb figurines as actors; the other was
for an “Explorations” science telecast on the beginnings of life. The growing library
of kinescopes on television films made in the Museum for the English-speaking
network was supplemented in the spring by the filming of the first three of a series
of programmes planned for the French-speaking network. In another interesting
experiment Dr. Tovell did a series of three broadcasts on the geology of the Great
Lakes for elementary pupils in the classroom. With the aid of an Ontario Government
grant, a booklet was prepared to accompany these broadcasts and the 15,000 printed
proved insufficient to meet the demand.

The list of the year’s distinguished visitors was longer than ever and in most
cases each added something to the store of knowledge or information already in the
Museum. The American, French, Italian, Japanese and Peruvian ambassadors all
honoured us with visits and informed interest. Mrs. Wendell Willkie was among the
visitors. Perhaps the most enduring memories were left behind by Professor Oswald
Siren, Sir Kenneth and Lady Clark, Professor Carleton Coons, Dr. W. E. Swinton
and Dr. Gunner Svardson.

It may be fair to say that the Museum is a major instrument in Canada for
providing the climate and the materials by which the people — scholar and layman,
child and adult— may attain the most liberal of educations and cultures. Our tasks
are all directed at improving that climate and broadening those facilities, strengthen¬
ing the material evidences and making ever more clear their interpretation. The
year’s book is closed with a feeling of regret for the things which could not be done
but with a sense of satisfaction at how much actually was well accomplished.

Use of the Royal Ontario Museum Galleries and Studies

July 1, 1958, to June 30, 1959

No. of

groups

individuals

Visitors

—

276,533

School classes

Metropolitan Toronto

1,014

32,397

Province

669

17,539

Unconducted

352

7,977

TOTAL

2,035

57,913

Groups other than schools

Ontario College of Art

486

13,648

Division of Education

5,772

Royal Ontario Museum staff

407

Scheduled classes U. of T. related to Museum subjects

989

66.041

Scheduled classes U. of T. unrelated to Museum subjects

448

Unconducted groups

226

5,116

TOTAL

1,830

91,432

Archives

—

12,005

Other uses of R.O.M.

133

27,735

Total

3,998

465,618

IMPORTANT ACCESSIONS DURING THE YEAR 1958-59

Art and Archaeology Division

Presentations

“Gibbons”, hanging scroll by Shugetsu (died c. 1510). Japanese. 42%" x 201/4". The Reuben
Wells Leonard Fund.

Chinese furniture. Desk, Ht. 2' 9", W. 5' 2", depth 2' 1”; chairs, Ht. 3'. Gift of Mrs. Edgar
Stone.

Two paintings and one woodblock print by Munakata. Gift of Mr. M. Nishigaki, Kyoto.

Woodblock print by Saito. Gift of Mr. J. Mayuyama, Tokyo.

Chinese marriage rug. Gift of the Estate of Mrs. H. D. Warren.

Totem pole from Australia. Ht. 46”. Gift of Mr. R. W. Finlayson.

Sepik River skull. New Guinea. Gift of Mr. R. W. Finlayson.

Wooden antelope headdress, Bambara. Ht. 52". Gift of Mr. S. J. Zacks.

Inscribed wooden statue of a man, Egyptian, 12th Dynasty, about 1900 B.C. Ht. of fig. 16%".
Anonymous gift.

Head of a priest, granite, Egyptian, 4th century B.C. Ht. 3 %". Anonymous gift.

Head of a man in high relief, volcanic stone, Persian, probably Parthian period. Length from
chin to top of head 5”. Anonymous gift.

Silver tankard, English, London, 1795. Ht. 7%". Estate of E. R. Rolph.

Handwoven coverlet, Pennsylvania, 19th century. 9' 2%" x 5' 10%". Gift of Mrs. Stewart Brown.

Collection of costume. Gift of Lady Eaton.

Collection of 18th and 19th century costume. Gift of Miss Joan Arnoldi.

Collection of 20th century costume. Gift of Mrs. F. W. Trusler.

Short evening dress, spring 1958. Gift of Holt Renfrew Limited.

Wool dress about 1839. Gift of Mrs. d’Arcy Leonard.

Dress designed by Rouf with matching hat, 1908. Gift of Mrs. D. S. Stayner.

Wool dress with coat lined with silver fox, English, 1957. Gift of Ronald Paterson, Inc.

Evening cloak by Worth, 1908. Anonoymous gift.

Caraco jacket of printed cotton, French, about 1785. Holt Renfrew Fashion Fund.

Woman’s costume, Jugoslavia, Zagreb district, late 19th century. Gift of Mrs. Edgar Stone.

White taffeta evening dress, about 1857, perhaps by Worth. Holt Renfrew Fashion Fund.

Group of men’s fashion plates 1851-71. Warren K. Cook Collection. Gift of Cook Clothing.

Bead purse, English, dated 1632. 3%" x 4%". Holt Renfrew Fashion Fund.

40 pieces of early Canadian glass from Nova Scotia, Ontario and Quebec. Gift of Dr. Lome
Pierce.

2 prints of Canada by Fisher and Edy, 1796; 2 small Krieghoff oil-paintings; Krieghoff land¬
scape in oils; 2 Patley sepia sketches of Halifax; 6 prints of Red River, Jones after Rindis-
becker, 1828; Neptune America-Septentrional, about 1780; map of Maryland, 1671; sheet
of uncut paper currency, Champlain and St. Lawrence railroad, 1837; water-colour of
Quebec by Lt. J. Musgrave, C.E.; 16 early maps of Canada and North America, 1 562—
1700; mezzotint of New Brunswick coast by unidentified artist, about 1860; water-colour
of Canada by Marmaduke Matthews; water-colour portrait of Lt. General H. W. Barnard,
C. in C. Quebec; portrait of Paul Sandby, R.A., in mezzotint; 8 penil drawings by C. E.
Wiggin, 1841. Gifts of Dr. Sigmund Samuel.

Exchanges

Bronze mirror, Persian, c. A.D. 1300. Diam. 4,ih; .

By Contribution

Ivory carvings, cycladic seals, pottery, iron and bronze objects, figurines, etc. from 1958
excavations at Nimrud; of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq.

12 stone objects from Jericho excavations.

Collected by Staff Members

Collection of archaeological material from Rainy River, and many photos.

Medicine man’s bag and birch bark scroll, from Rainy River.

Collection of archaeological material from the Miller site at Pickering, and photos.

Collection of archaeological material from Serpent Mounds, and many photos.

Collection of ethnological material from Round Lake.

Collection of reproductions of rock paintings, the result of three months’ field work in
collaboration with the Quetico Foundation, the Ontario Department of Lands and
Forests; and the Research Center, Ely, Minnesota; the Museum shares the ownership of
the reproductions with these three bodies.

Purchases

Bronze altarpiece, T’ang Dynasty. Ht. 12%'".

Speck collection of Naskapi ethnological material.

13 ceramic figures and pottery, pre-Columbian Mexico.

Spear, Dutch New Guinea. L. 10' 1".

Ladle, Igorot tribe, Philippine Islands. L. 32%".

Mask, Maprik, New Guinea. L. 22”, W. 10".

“Janus-headed” mask, Ogove River, Gabun. Ht. 24", L. 9", D. 10".

Ancestral figure, Asmat, Dutch New Guinea. Ht. 2' 3%".

Door, Dogon, Sudan. Ht. 3' %", W. 1' 9".

Figure Maprik, New Guinea. Ht. 3' 10”.

Carved figure, Sepik River, New Guinea. Ht. 3' 10".

Guro mask, Nigeria. Ht. 30%", W. 1 1%".

Wooden figure with upraised arms. Bandiagara region, French Sudan. Dogon. Ht. (cut off at
waist) 4'.

Horse and rider, Dogon. Ht. 2' 2 %”.

Eskimo whalebone mask, Alaska. Ht. 7%”.

Wooden figure, French Sudan, Dogon. Ht. 1' 1%”.

Figure carved in volcanic stone, Marquesas Islands. Ht. 6%".

Tam-tam drum, Baga. Ht. 5' 6", Diam. T 7" (at top).

Mask, Senufo. Ht. 24y2", W. 9%".

Nalindele mask and costume, life size. Northern Rhodesia.

Wooden drum, African. Ht. 213/4”, Diam. 10%".

Hide drum, African. Ht. 14%", Diam. 13”.

Wooden spoon, Tami Islands. L. 29 %”.

Mitre mask, Rorowe, Cameroons. Ht. 19%", W. 7%”.

Mask, Bwiti, Ogowe River, Fang Territory, Gabun. Ht. 11", W. 6".

Elephant mask, Bambara, French West Africa. L. 37%”, Ht. 13%".

Oule mask, Bobo, French West Africa. Ht. 17", W. 7”.

Dance mask, Bakuba, Kasai area, Belgian Congo. Ht. 17%", W. 9 1,4".

Poro Secret Society mask, Dan. Ivory Coast. Ht. 914", W. bV\" .

Helmet mask, Senufo, French Sudan, Ht. 33V2", W. 8%".

Mask, Yoruba, Nigeria. Ht. 16%", W. 7 %".

Mask, Baoule, Ivory Coast. Ht. 9”, W. 4 %".

Antelope mask, Dogon, French Sudan. Ht. 19%", W. 6%".

Dance mask, Mossi, Haute Volta, Ivory Coast. Ht. 6', W. 7".

Mask, Dogon, French Sudan. L. 13'1", W. 8".

Wooden ceremonial staff, pre-Columbian Peru. Ht. 18%", W. 1%".

Relief sculpture, Egyptian, 14th century B.C. With profile portrait of Nefertiti. Ht. 8", W. 18%"
Stucco figure, Persian, 1 2th — 1 3th century A.D. Ht. 13".

Curtius collection of Greek and Roman objects, consisting of sculpture, pottery, etc.

Bronze couch (27 fragments; when restored it will make a bed of average length).

Roman mosaic of a cockerel. 18%'' x 20%".

Bottger pilgrim bottle, Meissen, 1710-20. Ht. 6", Diam. at base 1%" x 2%".

Silver-gilt book attachment, North Italian, 1475-1525. Ht. (a) 1%'', (b) 3%'', (c) 1%".

2 stained glass panels, South German (?), c. 1530 (?). 18%" x 25%"; 20%" x 25".

Stone figure “St. George and the Dragon”. Burgundian, 15th-16th century.

Terracotta bust, thought to be of Francois Duquesnoy — “Fiammingo”, signed “Mich. Rysbrack,
1743”. Ht. 23i/o".

18-piece porcelain coffee service, English, Lowestoft, 18th century.

Glass wine jug, Italy, Venice, c. 1550. Ht. 6%", Diam. at rim 4 at foot 4%".

Medallion-bust of Oliver Cromwell by Louis Francois Roubiliac. English, c. 1750. Diam. without
frame 10%".

Embroidered hanging, Bengal, 17th century. 7' 10" x 3'9".

Crewel work curtain, English, late 17th century. 6' 10" x 5'5".

Collection of 18th century paste buckles and of late 18th century and 19th century rings.
Mahogany card table, Canadian, about 1830-40.

Regency armchair in mixed woods, French, about 1725.

White marble bust of William Pitt the Younger, by Joseph Nollekens, 1737—1823.

Earth Sciences Division

Presentations

Thucolite containing coffinite, Elliot Lake. Ontario, by F. H. Mylrea, Elliot Lake, Ontario
Berthierite, Giant Yellowknife Mine Ltd., N.W.T.. by the Company
Orpiment, Iraq, by Andre Dorfman, Toronto

Soapstone, Port Harrison and Povungnituck Island, Quebec; serpentine and soapstone, Baffin
Island, by Hudson Bay Co., Winnipeg, Manitoba
Chalcopyrite and native silver, pitchblende, bismuth. Port Radium, N.W.T., by Dr. B. S. W.
Buffam, Toronto

Basalt porphyry, Kenora District, Ontario; clinozoisite in basalt porphyry, by Dr. J. Satterly,
Toronto

Suite of volcanic rocks, Hawaii, by Dr. G. Macdonald
Mica, India, by Ward Leonard of Canada Ltd.

Pyrite crystal, drill core showing gold, Preston East Dome Mines Ltd., South Porcupine,
Ontario, by the Company

Sphalerite crystals on quartz, Timmins, Ontario, by Hollinger Consolidated Gold Mines Ltd.,
Timmins, Ontario

Cosalite with galena, Kipawa Area, Quebec, by Beecher Woods, North Bay, Ontario
Calcite crystals, Lyndhurst, Ontario, by Quartz Crystal Mines Ltd., Lyndhurst, Ontario
Garnet in schist, River Valley, Ontario, by Harry C. Wain

Cassiterite, Wallabach Lake, New Ross Area, Nova Scotia; cinnabar crystals, Red Devil Mine,
Red Devil, Alaska, by Dr. D. H. Gorman
Melanocerite, Cardiff Mine, Wilberforce, Ontario, by C. Spooner, Toronto
Gold highgrade, millerite, Kerr-Addison Gold Mines, Virginiatown, Ontario, by the Company
Gold highgrade, Dome Mines Ltd., South Porcupine, Ontario, by the Company
Gold highgrade, Consolidated Discovery Yellowknife Mines, Ltd., Yellowknife, N.W.T.,
by the Company

Beryl, columbite-tantalite, Johann Beetz Township, Saguenay County, Quebec, by K. G. Ellard
Asbestos, East Broughton, Quebec, by Quebec Asbestos Corp. Ltd.

Kammererite, Erzerum, Turkey, by Dr. M. H. Frohberg, Toronto

Hornblende crystals, Monmouth Township, Ontario, by Dr. D. H. Hogarth, Ottawa

Important Exchanges

Ilmenite crystals, Faraday Township, Hastings County, Ontario (C. Vickery, Toronto)

150 specimens of rocks and minerals from U.S.S.R. (Ivan Franko State University of Lvov,
U.S.S.R.) .

13 mineral specimens from Pennsylvania locations (North Museum, Lancaster, Pa.)

Grantsite, haagite and other radioactive minerals from Grants, New Mexico (United States
National Museum, Washington)

Carnotite, Jimthorpe, Pa.; petalite, Bikita, Rhodesia (Dr. Arthur Montgomery)

Cornubite, St. Day, Cornwall, England (British Museum of Natural History, London)

Goyazite and Laueite, North Groton, New Hampshire; tektite, Biliton, Indonesia; simplotite,
San Juan County, Utah; mansfieldite, Cap Garonne, France and 30 other specimens
from various locations (Ward’s Natural Science Establishment, Inc., Rochester, New York)
Lesserite, ulexite and inderite from Boron, California (Victor C. Vescovi)

Large inderite crystal, Boron, California (Vincent Morgan, Boron, Calif.)

Columbite crystal, Branchville, Connecticut and 7 other specimens from Connecticut and
New Jersey (Neal Yedlin, New Haven, Conn.)

Collected by Staff Members

Hanksite crystals, Searles Lake, California
Colemanite crystals, Boron, California
Kaolinized granite, Mt. Lennon, Arizona
Tremolitic limestone, Kaladar, Ontario
Feldspar porphyry, Nairn, Ontario
Ilmenite, Northbrook, Ontario
Millerite and Gersdorffite, Temagami, Ontario
Tourmaline, Barrie Township, Ontario

Purchases

Josephinite, Josephine County, Oregon (Mrs. D. Boyd)

Several fine specimens of gold highgrade (Dome Mines Ltd., South Porcupine, Ontario; Mac¬
Intyre Porcupine Mines Ltd., Schumacher, Ontario; Preston East Dome Mines Ltd., South
Porcupine, Ontario; Hollinger Consolidated Gold Mines Ltd., Timmins, Ontario)

Aquamarine crystal, Brazil (Martin Ehrmann, Los Angeles, California)

Schoepite, soddyite, curite and others, Katanga, Belgian Congo (Mrs. R. Stradiot)

Papagoite with ajoite, Ajo, Arizona; crednerite, Somerset, England; scawtite, Riverside County,
California; stillwellite, Mt. Isa, Australia; veatchite, Los Angeles County, California;
tirodite, Tirodi Mine, India; strunzite with laueite and pseudolaueite, Hagendorf, Bavaria;
coffinite, novacekite and doloresite, New Mexico (Scott Williams, Scottsdale, Arizona)

Sapphire crystal, Mozambique, East Africa, and other minerals (Shale’s Ltd., Los Angeles,
California)

Native lead, Sweden; opal boulder, Queensland, Australia (The Bradleys, Los Angeles,
California)

Ilmenite crystal, Kragero, Norway; stibnite crystals, Manhattan, Nevada; eskolaite, Outokumpu,
Finland; ellestadite, Riverside County, California; hawleyite, Yukon, Canada and other
specimens (Filer’s, Redlands, California)

Large suite of fine wulfenite and cerussite specimens from Arizona (The Collector’s Shop,
Tucson, Arizona)

Gold nuggets from various locations, Bolivia (Dr. George Pick, Bolivia)

Emerald crystal, Pretoria, Transvaal; metahewettite, from Arizona and Utah, and other speci¬
mens (Ward’s Natural Science Establishment, Inc., Rochester, N.Y.)

Purchases for Gem Collection

Amblygonite, oval brilliant, weight 16 carats
Apatite, cat’s eye, 7 carats
Chrysoberyl, deep step-cut, 43 carats
Garnet, demantoid, oval brilliant, 2.7 carats
Garnet, hessonite, square step-cut, 10 carats
Garnet, star, brown, cabochon, 27 carats
Green Spodumene, sea-green step-cut. 1.840 carats
Peridot, square, step-cut, 108 carats
Spinel, pink, cushion-cut, 12.6 carats
Topaz, sherry, cushion-cut, 159 carats
Tourmaline, rose-pink, oval brilliant, 42 carats
Tourmaline, green, step-cut, 81 carats

Life Sciences Division

Presentations

119 specimens of mammals particularly from Manitoba, from J. R. Tamsitt
2 passenger pigeons from Mr. L. H. Beamer of Meaford and Mr. Paul Hahn of Toronto
2 extinct Greater Prairie chickens, from W. Steele of Guelph
48 research specimens of birds from W. Dean of Toronto

Many research specimens of fishes have been received from: Fisheries Research Board of
Canada; Canadian Dept, of Fisheries; Ontario Dept, of Lands and Forests; Ontario Dept,
of Planning and Development; National Museum of Canada; Quebec Dept, of Fisheries;
University of Montreal; University of Michigan; University of Maine; University of
Saskatchewan; Freshwater Research Institute of Drottingholm, Sweden; British Museum;
Board of Fisheries and Game of Connecticut; Virginia Polytechnic Institute; University of
Miami; Florida Game and Freshwater Fish Commission
Madre Porarian coral from Florida

Specimens of Trichoptera from Alaska, from Dr. G. E. Bell of Alberta

Exchanges

15 specimens of birds from University of Florida

16 specimens of birds from Zoologisch Museum, Amsterdam

17 specimens of birds from National Museum of Victoria, Australia
1 1 specimens of birds from British Museum, London

Collected by Staff Members

59 specimens of Ontario Mammals

Many specimens of Canadian freshwater fishes

Pelecypods and gastropods from Mancora and Chira River, Peru

Many specimens of Ontario Trichoptera from Lake Superior and Southern Appalachian
Mountains

Purchases

83 specimens of birds from Montmagy and Kamouraska counties from R. McNeil.

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OPROM — Occasional Papers of the Art and Archaeology Division, Royal Ontario
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Museum board

Harold M. Turner, m.s., Chairman

Sigmund Samuel, ll.d., Honorary Chairman

Ronald A. Allen, m.a., ph.d.

Samuel Beatty, m.a., ph.d., ll.d., f.r.s.c.

L. G. Berry, m.a., ph.d., f.r.s.c., f.g.s.a.

E. W. Bickle

C. T. Bissell, m.a., ph.d., d.litt., ll.d., f.r.s.c.

Henry Borden, c.m.g., q.c., b.a.

J. Harold Crang

Mrs. C. L. Gundy

G. A. LaBine, o.b.e., ll.d.

R. A. Laidlaw, ll.d.

The Hon. J. Keiller Mackay, d.s.o., v.d., q.c., ll.d.

J. A. McDougald
R. G. Meech, q.c., b.a.

W. E. Phillips, c.b.e., d.s.o., m.c., ll.d.

Hon. Dana Porter, Q.c., m.a., m.l.a.

Mrs. Edgar Stone, m.a.

Mrs. O. D. Vaughan, m.a.

Mrs. Helen Downie - Executive-Secretary, Museum Board

Museum officers

Theodore Allen Heinrich, m.litt., ph.d. - Director

Art and Archaeology Division

A. D. Tushingham, b.d., ph.d., Head

G. Brett, m.c., m.a., Curator, Modern European Department
Mrs. K. B. Brett, Curator, Textile Department

Miss H. E. Fernald, A.B., Research Curator, Far Eastern Department

J. W. Graham, m.a., ph.d., Curator, Greek & Roman Department
W. Kenyon, m.a., Assistant Curator, Ethnology Department

K. E. Kidd, m.a., Curator, Ethnology Department

Mrs. N. Leipen, dip.phil., Assistant Curator, Greek & Roman Department
J. Lunn, b.sc., b.a., a. m.a. f.r.s.a., Associate Curator, Greek & Roman Department
Miss W. Needier, b.a., Curator, Near Eastern Department

F. St. G. Spendlove, dip. arch., f.m.a., f.r.s.a., Curator, Canadiana Collections
Mrs. B. Stephen, b.a., Assistant Curator, Far Eastern Department

H. Trubner, m.a., Curator, Far Eastern Department

The Rt. Rev. W. C. White, d.d., f.r.s.c., Curator Emeritus, Far Eastern Department

Earth Sciences Division

V. B. Meen, m.a., ph.d., Head of Division and Curator of Mineralogy

W. M. Tovell, m.s., ph.d., Curator of Geology

Life Sciences Division

F. A. Urquhart, m.a., ph.d., Head of Division and Curator, Invertebrate Zoology

Department

E. J. Crossman, m.a., ph.d., Assistant Curator, Ichthyology & Herpetology Department

A. G. Edmund, m.a., ph.d.. Assistant Curator, Vertebrate Palaeontology Department

R. R. H. Lemon, m.a., ph.d., Assistant Curator, Invertebrate Paleontology Department

E. B. S. Logier, Associate Curator, Ichthyology & Herpetology Department

R. L. Peterson, m.a., ph.d., Curator, Mammalogy Department

W. B. Scott, m.a., ph.d., Curator, Ichthyology & Herpetology Department

L. L. Snyder, Curator, Ornithology Department

L. Sternberg, Associate Curator, Vertebrate Palaeontology Department

G. B. Wiggins, m.a., Assistant Curator, Invertebrate Zoology Department

E. M. Walker, m.b., f.r.s.c., Honorary Curator, Invertebrate Zoology Department

Education Division

Miss N. E. Heakes, b.a., Supervisor

Office of Information Services

Duncan F. Cameron. Chief Information Officer

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